A compendious view of the grounds of the Teutonick philosophy : with considerations by way of enquiry into the subject matter and scope of the writings of Jacob Behmen, commonly called, the Teutonick philosopher : also several extracts from his writings and some words used by him explained

42 Of eternal Nature after

unguifhes that light which fhines from the heart of God [into every man that cometh into the world,}] being then feparated from the fecond principle: For which caufe alfo, at the end of time, there will be a feparation or parting afunder of the faints of light, from the damned, whofe fource of life will be without the light of God, and the working fountain of their condition as a boiling fpringing torment.

43. Now we have here fhewed you the firft principle, out of which all things take their beginning, and muft fpeak of it as if there were a feparable effence where there is fuch a kind of fource; to the end that the firft principle in creation may be underftood, fo that the eternity of the immortal fpirits, as alfo the anger of God, the origin of fin, the eternal death of darknefs, [which is fo called in refpeét to the extinguifhment of the light], alfo the fall of angels, who thereby became devils, and hell fire, might be known, and underftood what they are.

44. I will now write of the fecond principle, of the clear pure Deity ; namely, of the heart of Gad, that is, the power, glo-

ry, or luftre of God the Father, in the ' Son.